This is the cutest cake ever! I love this Peek A Boo Vanilla Almond Pound Cake recipe. It is totally worth the extra effort. I’m not going to fib this takes a bit of work and patience but it is so cute and the slices make you smile when you see them.
This Peek A Boo cake or Surprise Inside Cake has a heart in it. That is because I used a heart cookie cutter and red food coloring to make it pink. How adorable would this be for a little girl princess or tea party? The guests would absolutely swoon. This can easily be switch to a pumpkin/apple inside during the fall or a flower for the summer.
I love this cake and will be baking this for many years to come!
Peek A Boo Vanilla Almond Pound Cake
Peek A Boo Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- Cake 1
- Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 2-1/2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp almond extract
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2-1/2 cups flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 drops red food coloring
- Cake 2
- ¾ butter room temperature
- ¾ cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 -3/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tsp vanilla
- Icing
- 1 cup Confectioners Sugar combined with 3 Tbsp Milk
Instructions
- CAKE 1
- Preheat oven 325.
- Cream butter and sugar, approx. 5 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time to combine.
- Add extracts and heavy cream and mix.
- Add salt, flour and baking powder and mix until just combined.
- Add food coloring and blend – mixture should be pink.
- Spray a 9x4 loaf pan and pour in batter.
- Bake for 60-70 minutes
- Cool completely then cut into 1 inch slices.
- Using a heart cookie cutter, cut hearts out of each slice and put aside.
- Prepare 2nd cake batter.
- CAKE 2
- Preheat oven 325.
- Cream butter and sugar, approx. 5 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time to combine.
- Add extract and milk and mix.
- Add salt, flour and baking powder and mix until just combined.
- Spray a 9x4 loaf pan
- Stack the pink hearts in a row down the center of the loaf pan. Pour the batter of cake 2 into the loaf pan (it should cover the heart stacks.)
- Bake for 60-70 minutes (check to make sure cake is done with toothpick)
- Cool completely
- Drizzle with icing.
- Cool completely
- Cut into 1 inch slices.
